Summary Of Nat Turner's Rebellion

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Stephen Oates, while still narrating Nat Turner’s rebellion and its backlash from multiple perspectives, displays what is perhaps a necessary bias throughout the book. This is first seen with his defense of Nat Turner. In Oates’ foreword, he states that he “wanted to transport readers back to Nat’s time” in order for them to “suffer with him and see the world of slavery.through his eyes” and “gain melancholy insight into what it was like to be a slave.” He wanted readers to “appreciate Nat for the complex, paradoxical figure he was, a man capable of love and hatred, doubt and thundering visions, sensitivity and messianic rage.” (3) Oates makes his objective of shedding light on Nat and positive bias towards the title character. 3. Negative
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